Generic list post: 20 for january 2014

Vanity list of songs ya boy Nicki Farage has been all over like a F/W 2014 Yohji manskirt this past month:

TREE - Probably Nu It (2014)
Agallah ft. Roc Marciano - Blaze Of Glory (2013)
Travis Porter - Geekin' (2013)
Stu Hustlah & Lil' Juu - This Is Me (2014)
Migos & Young Thug - YRN (2013)
Spice 1 - Killa Days snippet (1992)
ZMoney - Rollin' (2014)
JNeal - Can't Breathe (2014)
Nicki Minaj ft. PTAF - Boss Ass Bitch remix (2013)
French Montana ft. Jadakiss - '88 Coupes (2014)
Lil' Durk - Money & Power (2014)
Hustle Gang ft. Mystikal - Here I Go (2013)
Sean Price - I Shot Tha (2003 or 2004)
Gzus Piece - Gimme That Cash (2012)
Speaker Knockerz - Lonely (2014)
Ka - You Know It's About (2013)
DJ Upgrade ft. Rico Tha Kidd - Hey Girl (2012)
DB Tha General - Motel6 Intro (Phantasm) (2014)
DJ KaySlay ft. Sheek Louch, Styles P & Uncle Murda - When We Ride (2014)
Ampichino - The Eulogy (2013)

Did anybody rip Ampichino's The Eulogy? Offliberty had stopped working for ripping Soundcloud audio and now the song has disappeared from t'internet! Plz tell me somebody ganked the MP3 'cause Amp's next album isn't out for months.

I blog like a parrot, I never been a pigeon

Here's my Deep Cuts for Complex this week: the Pimpin' Mane remix by SMKA with Rittz, Jackie Chain, Scotty & RaRa, and When We Ride by DJ Kay Slay featuring Sheek Louch, Styles P & Uncle Murda.

And here's the MP3s of both tracks should you need them on your phone/MP3-player in a time of crisis. Doesn't matter whether you're trapped in a lift or staring down a dark night of the soul, it's always handy to have at least one song featuring Jackie Chain on deck:

"I see a whole lotta lemon lames but I don't mention names
You pimp a lotta hoes on Instagram, you're really square like a picture frame
That ain't pimpin', mane"

SMKA ft. Rittz, Jackie Chain, Scotty ATL & RaRa - Pimpin' Mane remix
(From the forthcoming Kato's Revenge album; 2014)


"Shells in the sawn off
Goons in The Waldorf
N*ggas that I'm beefin' with hopin' that it's called off"

DJ Kay Slay ft. Sheek Louch, Styles P & Uncle Murda - When We Ride
(From DJ Kay Slay's The Rise Of A City mixtape; 2014)

Strictly 4 S.P.A.R.T.A.N

Courtesy of DB Tha General's new full length Motel6 (aka the long-touted album my favourite Bay Area song of 2013 was the lead-off single for), here's the intro track where he rhymes over Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagraves' Phantasm theme score, which, of course, was previously freaked up and freaked out on by Doug E. Fresh, Mobb Deep, and Master P:

"My opposition, yeah I got this proposition
These n*ggas they end up missin' pillow talkin' to these bitches
Pillow talkin' to these bitches how a n*gga catch a case
Yeah, they say what they say, but never say it to my face!"

DB Tha General - Motel6 Intro (Phatasm)
(From Motel6 album; 2014)



For the 6 of us DB Tha General obsessives out here on the Rap internet, here's a homemade video for the classic intro to his Welcome To The Navy album (aka the song which announced DB's arrival proper and gave birth to Gassin'!) where a couple of skateboarding pilgrims from Oakland pretend to run up in some drug dealer dude's suburban home and rob him:


Liking how this almost resembles one of the videos Kreayshawn shot for DB's Welcome To The Navy singles in 2009 during the ‘DGainz of Oakland’ phase of her career, but the lads who made this really dropped the ball by ending the video before it got to the song's most infamous line: "Don't be mad I go and you'ze a lame/Your bitch ass daddy shoulda showed you the game!"

Treated like a prostitute

Treated Crew - Up'N Fees
(From the Treated Tuesdays series; 2012)


For the past year or so I've been labouring under the illusion that Up 'N Fees was the best song ever released by Mic Terror's Treated Crew posse, with the theory being that Mic's buddies rhyming about being "righteous and ratchet at the same time in the same rhyme" over a Black Sabbath sample which sounded like it was filtered on the bed of the Coral Reef was as good as it could possibly get from a group of weed carriers.

Turns out the real best Treated song is actually one where the rapper from Up 'N Fees who sounds like he's stolen one of Fabolous' notepads hit up Band Nation's producers Nez & Rio for something in a similar vein, but asked for it to be pitched down a few BPMs with a slo-mo variation of the Different Strokes vinegar-stroke grunts intro thrown over the top of the beat for effect:

Gzus Piece - Gimme That Cash
(From Fuck Y'All EP; 2012)



It pains me to inflate David Drake's ego any bigger than it already is, but if Thomas "found" Handsome by Feva, Husalah & Franchise in 2012, then Drake "found" Gimme That Cash that very same year.

Number one stunna gunnin' for ya

Spotted via Robbie's gaff, here's another song which was recorded for Sean Price's debut album and then eventually left on the scrap-heap, presumably due to sample clearance. I'm assuming you Americans (and, indeed, the Japanese) are unaware that Eric Clapton is a racist?

Sean Price - I Shot Tha
(From Monkey Bars album recording sessions; sometime between 2003 - 2005)


Need a deluxe reissue of Monkey Barz which removes Fake Neptune and features this, Telemundo with Agallah, Don't Say Shit To Ruck, 60 Bar Dash and Bounce with F.T instead.

Eatin' crustaceans with AZNs, talkin' flagrant

"Infra red on the glock
I'm gettin' head on the yacht
Your head got a red dot
Shoot your head from the yacht
*BLAAAOOOOW!*"

Agallah ft. Roc Marciano - Blaze Of Glory
(From the internet; 2013/Alchemist & Agallah's Past And Present mixtape; 2014)


Really feel like Agallah's contribution to Blaze Of Glory was done a vast disservice when the song briefly made ripples across the Rap internet late last december because Ag' Liberace kinda checkmated Roc Marciano at his own game on it. Theoretically, you'd imagine Marciano would be the alkali to Agallah's acid and the song would've been rendered neutral as an unfortunate clash of mismatched flows, but Ag's beat was clearly custom built for Marciano, ergo the two of them proved to be a much better pairing than 95% of the guests on Marci Beaucoup.

Phew, that's the vaguely serious stuff outta the way, now let's talk 'bout the important shit; namely Agallah being the first rapper ever to have two entirely different hairdos in the same video last year:

Agallah The Don Bradman got the Glenn Danzig video point on lock like Sing Sing!

Raising Rich B4 Rap

The debate over who was the philosopher's stone and who were the lead weights during the recording of Rich B4 Rap continues with this comment which may or may not have been posted by JNeal himself since he later linked my post on Twitter:



Damn, this whole kerfuffle is like a Rap game equivalent of the great Citizen Kane authorship wars of the 1970s with ZMoney as Orson Welles, Bandman Kevo as Herman Mankiewicz, JNeal as Gregg Toland, and me as Pauline Kael. For anyone else willing to see this analogy through to its inevitable conclusion, that means Gucci Mane and OJ Da Juiceman are William Randolph Hearst and Samuel Insull but we're currently lacking an Andrew Sarris.

All solid bloggaz with me is how we was brought up, bloggaz start talkin' to rappaz and get caught up.

My Deep Cuts for Complex this week: Smoke Up by Stunt-N-Dozier featuring Peryon J Kee & Lil' Pooh, and Fuck A Plan B by Ace B8gie & Murph Watkins.

The latter Deep Cut brought forth a comparison with the Steady B & Cool C incident, which gives me a convenient excuse to repost the legendary Fat Lace fashion shoot recreation of the day Steady B & Cool C made like Shaggy's son and tried to robb bank$: